Chair



H N A L M mm & L L A H P am M M 0 m CHAIR.

No. 331,634. Patented Dec. 1, 1885.-

I a l I a A INVEN EJ E WITNESSES "Unrrnn STATES Parana @rricr GEORGE F.HALL AND GEORGE LANE, OF ASBURY PARK, NE\V JERSEY.

CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 331,634, dated December1, 1885.

Application filed December 12, 1884. Serial No. 150,195. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE F. HALL and GEORGE M. LANE, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Asbury Park, in the county of Monmouth andState of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Chairs; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the ac companying drawings, and to the letters and figuresofreference mark ed thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to easy-chairs, and has for its object a chairwhich can be easily adjusted into and out of its reclining position, andwhich will retain such reclining position when occupied without efforton the part of the occupant.

The invention consists in certain novel constructions and arrangementsof parts, which will be first fully described, and then pointed out inthe claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of our chair. Fig. 2 is asimilar View, with a slight modification in the arrangement of theparts. Fig. 3 is a front view of the chair. Fig. 4 is a detail view ofthe preferred iorm of hangers. Fig. 5 is a detached sectional view online xx, Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a sectional view on line 3/ Fig. 3, all ofwhich will be described.

Our chair consists of a base, A, a chair proper, B, and the connectingdevices. The base-frame is provided on its opposite sides near its rearend with lateral grooves O,which may be formed entirely through the sideframes of said base, or only partially through same, as desired. Nearthe forward upper end of the base we suspend hangers D, pivotallysupported at d to the base, and having their lower ends, (1, projectedlaterally in position to receive the legs of the chair proper. We preferto connect these hangers by an intermediate frame, E, which may beornamented and add to the beauty of the chair as well as brace and givefirmness to the hangers. The hangers are arranged between the sideframes of the base, and the parts d thereof project out through suitableopenings in. said frames, as shown.

The chair proper has its legs F F depend= ing on opposite sides of thebase, as shown most clearly in Fig. 1. Therear legs are provided withprojections G,which enter grooves O, and are preferably supplied withanti-friction rollers, to reduce the friction and permit the easiermotion of the projections in the grooves, as will be seen. The forwardlegs are pivotally supported on the hangers D.

The operation is simple, and will be readily understood. The chair willordinarily rest in the position shown in full lines, Fig. 1. When theoccupant is reclining, the chair will assume the position shown indotted lines numbered 1, Fig. 1. As the occupant leaves the chair itadjusts into the position indicated in dotted lines numbered 2, Fig. 1.In order to draw the chair into and preserve it when unoccupied in theposition shown in full lines, Fig. 1,we employ a retracting-spring, H,fastened at one end to the crossbar I of the base, and at its other endto the rear part of the seat of the chair proper. This spring assiststhe occupant of a chair in adjusting from a recumbent to a sittingposition, and also enables such occupant to rest in a positionintermediate the sitting and recumbent position, as will be understood.This spring also has a tendency to draw the seat forward when in thedotted position numbered 1, Fig. 1, and backward when in the dottedposition numbered 2, same figure. This will be readily understood whenit is borne in mind that the spring is adjusted to be normally inactivewhen the chair is in the position shown in full lines, Figs. 1 and 2;but when the chair is brought to either position shown by dotted linesthe spring will be expanded, and consequently will assist in returningthe chair to its normal or first position.

It is manifest that it would involve no departure from the spirit of ourinvention to project the legs of the chair down close to the innerinstead of the outer sides of the side frames of the base,also thatwhere so desired, instead of employing the hangers at the front and thegrooves at the rear of the base, this arrangement may be reversed, as isshown in Fig. 2.

Heretofore a patent (which has now expired) has been granted to oneBragg, in which is shown an easy-chair, a base provided near one endwith lateral grooves, and a chair proper hinged at one edge to suchbase. and

provided at or near its other end with projections which enter thegrooves of the base, and we do not broadly claim such construction asour invention.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. An easy-chair consisting of the following elements in combination: abase provided with grooves at one end and hangers at its opposite end, achair having lateral projections at one end to enter said grooves in thebase, its other end being pivotally connected to the free ends of thehangers, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. In an easy-chair, the combination of a base provided with grooves atone end, and hangers pivotally connected to its other end, with a chairhaving legs, lateral projections GEO. F. HALL. GEORGE M. LANE.

Vitn esses:

R. TENBROECK STOUT, WEsLEY B. STOUT.

